Author: Jeff Barr

If there was ever any doubt about the power each of us have, this week proved that one person makes a real difference. I am midway two-week trip to New Zealand and Australia, and writing this post from New Zealand. The person that Im talking about is Nick Joneslet me explain how this evangelism trip […]

I want to make sure that you are aware of the Success Stories section of our web site! Within that section you can learn about how companies large and small are using our Utility Computing Platform (EC2, S3, SimpleDB, and SQS), the Amazon Associates Web Service, the Amazon Mechanical Turk and the Alexa Web Information […]

My friends at Bungee Labs have rolled out the newest release of Bungee Connect, their browser-based application development and hosting platform. They have also released a library which makes it really easy to make calls to Amazon SimpleDB. The library wraps all of the SimpleDB SOAP calls and handles all of the authentication as well. […]

S3Stat is a log analysis tool for Amazon S3. This very helpful tool uses the log files generated by S3, analyzes them using Webalizer, and generates a variety of insightful and colorful reports. I have been using S3Stat on one of my own buckets for the last couple of months and have been pleased with […]

At 10 AM on Wednesday, February 13th, Dmitri Joukovski from Zmanda will explain how backup to Amazon S3 complements traditional backup to disk and tape. He will also demonstrate how easy it is to configure Amanda Enterprise for backup and recovery to Amazon S3. Dmitri will talk about the benefits of using S3 for off-site […]

Here’s the Second Life chat schedule for February. All of the chats will take place at 10 AM PST on the Amazon Developers Islands in Second Life. If you are new to Second Life and have trouble locating the island, simply log in 15 minutes or so before the chat and send me (“Jeffronius Batra”) […]

The unpredictable nature of the demand for rich media files, coupled with the amount of bandwidth needed to deal with a video that suddenly “goes viral” combine to create the circumstances for an event that I sometimes refer to as a “success disaster.” This happens when you create something cool and hope that it will […]

Yesterday afternoon I left the confines of the Amazon headquarters building and paid a visit to the Seattle-area offices of Twenty20 Cameras in order to learn more about their new VholdR product. I learned that they’ve got a really cool piece of hardware which is tightly coupled to an Amazon-powered online service and I can’t […]

Sonian Networks has completed their early-adopter program and is about to launch their new Amazon-powered data archiving service, the Sonian Archive SA2. I spoke with their executive team last week and was very intrigued by what I heard. With the exception of one external watchdog server, the SA2 service is totally contained within the Amazon […]

Developers  have used the Amazon Web Services to create highly scalable applications for Facebook including  Haikoo Zoo, Booze Mail, iLike, We’re Related, and SocialMoth Secrets. AWS is an ideal hosting environment for these applications. Developers can start small, test and prove out their ideas, and then rapidly add processing and storage resources as they develop […]